Intake porting guide
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Step 1
Blend bowl
to valve seat
As with the exhaust, remove cutter ridges and blend the valve seat to the
bowl. Bowl diameter should
be about 90% of seat diameter.
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D0VE-C with CJ
valve
and bowl blend
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Step-2
lay back / roll
short turn
The shape of your short turn radius is critical for good flow. The round bowl
shape has to be blended  and rolled into the main passage.
As air velocity approaches 350 feet per second the flow won't follow the
abrupt turn into the bowl causing the port to stall. Laying back the short turn
allows the flow to round this "corner" and flow into the pocket for a greater
period during times of high port activity.
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Step-3
Streamline
valve guide
boss
Shape the valve guide boss to help direct flow into the
pocket. Cutting away the back side of the boss will help
increase port volume without increasing port cross section.
Kind of like a little extra storage area. Raise the height of the
boss ..350".
See page 5 for additional information.
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After the exhaust port is uncluttered it is very
important that the intake side is addressed.
Many folks overlook this and then blame the
bad exhaust port for the lack of HP. Port the
intakes well and 600 to 700 HP is reasonable
out of the iron D0VE's I have dyno figures to
back up this statement.
SMJ/11-03